Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

The waters of the Francisco Bay, and especially of some of the rivers which enter it, are thronged with aquatic fowls of every description, beyond estimation, computation or description. A gunner can obtain feathers enough in a day for a large bed-and fowls enough to last him two months. They will not spoil for that time, if cleaned, and hung up in the air. If you can fall upon their nests, you can load a boat with eggs in a short time. So say Yankees in California.